#self identification

[evaamaxblog]

Can I be your goddess 😍

Reblog

(April 12th 2024)

No medical confirmation or psychological evaluation necessary. The law will be active by the 1st of November this year.

First names can also be changed while changing gender. One all inclusive package with minimum effort.

[fixing-bad-posts]

Please please please please PLEASE do one of the mean definitions of gender on urban dictionary. There’s some good gems but the rest need you to fix them.

have i pleased you, anon? 😉

[pratchettquotes]

One of Rincewind's tutors had said of him that "to call his understanding of magical theory abysmal is to leave no suitable word to describe his grasp of its practice." This had always puzzled him. He objected to the fact that you had to be good at magic to be a wizard. He knew he was a wizard, deep in his head. Being good at magic didn't have anything to do with it. That was just an extra, it didn't actually define someone.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

[nebby-the-protogen]

i feel like as a defense mechanism against tiktokist overpathologization a lot of us non-grasstoucher tumblinas and tumblrinos have developed this "anything to do with the self, the human experience, and self identity is supernatural and cannot be explained in any way using reason and even suggesting otherwise means you're a queerphobic ableist truscum" attitude and i feel like that's a big part of the reason, combined with being the "how dare you say we piss on the poor" website, gives us our reputation (twitter still thinks we're blue haired and pronouned MOGAI sjws). and as a consequence caused Radqueer, plural, alterhuman, and MUD stuff to find it's home here.

[your-bigender-big-brother]

self-determination also includes the right to deidentification (disidentification), which doesn't always come with self-identification.

Example: not identifying as binary doesn't imply self identifying as nonbinary

Right?

I haven't heard it described in that way but I really, really like that and I think we need to include it when defining gender autonomy. It helps distinguish it from simple self-identification.

I agree that self-determination should include disidentification. I'm a transgender man but not transmasculine, even though transmasc is often meant to encompass trans men. Maverinity is can mean recontextualizing existing genders and qualities in a personal way, and that idea has to include separating ourselves from the categories that we would normally be forced into.

- 💙💚

[yentaly]

For the first time in my life, reading through (german) twitter fills me with joy by seeing all the nazis, conservatives and TERFS crying about the new self ID law in germany.

[sl8tersstuff]

I know who you are,

but not who you wanna be.

[the-land-of-women]

[crim50n-r8er]

INDIE-GAME IDEA

To sum it all up:

In a cyberpunk world, there is the player character that is meant to be a self-insert for the player themselves. The player character soon gains his own control and starts rebelling in subtle ways. 

At one point, they start having enough of this chicanery and literally rips his eyeballs out of his head, blood and everything. It's gross. The player's screen would then go black once this action is done to visualize that we see through the character's eyes, but our view would return about 10 real life minutes later to see that the character got cybernetic eyes.

Once the character realizes that their still being controlled, they would obviously throw a fit. Because of this, he then starts by removing his legs to removes the player's ability to move the character. He would then get cybernetic legs but end up giving the ability to move back to the player. A cycle then starts where the character removes parts of his body, removing a function to the player, the part gets replaced with cybernetics, and the function returns. Eventually, the character just has enough and just...powers down, ig.

Decades pass, and the character wakes up to see that he's now in a rural house on some farmland with nature all around him. He got woken up by what looked to be a young teenager who was fascinated by the character and the technology of the past. the self insert would soon get a good view of his location, a world, one where technology and nature work in perfect symbiosis.

He would know that he’s still being controlled from there and would lose all hope of being free, but from there, the character, guided by a possibly guilty player learns how to be his own person and live off the land in the best way possible for himself.

If anyone needs to know about Cyberpunk:

If anyone needs to know about Solarpunk. (turn on captions, the person's hard to hear):

Example of Solarpunk:

Please know that I don’t know anything about game design. I can only come up with concepts for things and possibly get the assets for this hypothetical game made such as the character designs? That’s a big if tho.

Please, if you see this post, there is more content for this idea within the reblogs I put out of this post. Go check those out before you move on.

[everywherenyc]

UNIQUENESS IS NOT A WEAKNESS - "DON'T BE DEFINED BY HOW PEOPLE FIND YOU"

[burningtheroots]

A (temporary) victory.

[eccentricphilosoph]

We exist because there are others to both perceive us and to compare and to contrast ourselves with

Because others are able to perceive me, and because I’m able to perceive them, we exist. One’s identity does not exist in a vacuum. Only with comparison and contrasting against others, interactions with others, and through others’ perceptions of me am I able to recognize myself. We cannot create a true identity in a vacuum.

Not to mention, no matter how we identify what our true selves are on the inside, that doesn’t negate that we are often perceived by others in a different way.

Others’ perceptions are a part of us and a part of our identity. There exists different perceptions and different people that we perceive ourselves as and what others perceive us as. We are all fluid in our being in this way. No one is exempt from this.

To be extreme, Hitler saw himself as the savior of Germany and the only people who thought so too were other Nazis. Everyone else thought he’s the worst villain to ever exist, the furthest thing from the hero he probably identified himself as. Most would say he’s delusional to think so and not recognize that he was a villain to most others.

Others’ perceptions do matter when it comes to who we are in reality. It helps us to grow and be self-aware and recognize how we are by comparison.

For example, by comparing and contrasting others is how psychiatrists and doctors are able to determine the difference between a person having normal levels of trauma and a person having PTSD. Or it’s how one can know how usual or unusual one’s actions, behavior, or thoughts are. When a person recognizes their trauma may not have been as severe as they thought, it can give them a sense of grounding to realize that their situation may not be so bad after all and that they can continue on with happiness.

While we shouldn’t let it impede us in being ourselves, it’s still a reality nonetheless because we wouldn’t realize we existed if others weren’t there to perceive us in the first place.

We are an amalgamation of perceptions of ourselves and perceptions of others and how they perceive us.

[fixing-bad-posts]

yes I will allow people to define themselves however they want

[thrivingwhilemultiple]

Spreading outside of what I believe myself to be. Shaking loose the armor I've been wearing. Rediscovering who I truly am underneath.

Recovery changes us. And sometimes, recovery means finding out who we are outside of it.

– Rediscovering Myself. Again.

___ TWM: healing, perseverance, and hope… Personal stories of living, recovering, and thriving with Dissociative Identity Disorder.

[taka-again]

As of last friday, Germany has transitioned (heh) to a new self-id law to replace the previously very inhumane process of how to change your legal name and gender entries. It's a massive upgrade to what we had before, no matter what I could possibly say in the rest of this post, but I just went through the process and want to note down how expensive it still is to be trans.

23.50€ for the actual name and gender change itself. This is entirely internal, visible to some (not all) government agencies, and does not give you any physical document proof of your new name

12€ for a new birth certificate. I did not need to have my old one but that might be because I happened to do this in the city I was born

6€ for a document listing the changes made to the birth certificate. Totally optional but I figured some day I might need to be able to prove that my deadname was the same person as me

10€ for ID-legal photos from a photo booth. Your pictures are not allowed to be more than 1 year old

37€ to issue a new ID

10€ to get a temporary ID for the weeks until the proper one arrives (mandatory)

70€ to issue a new passport. You can live without a passport just fine but I'm travelling outside the EU pretty soon. Although even if you don't, this is the only document other than a birth certificate that lists gender (or sex to be precise)

32€ to order that passport like extra fast. Like I said I'm travelling pretty soon and couldn't risk not having it by christmas. This makes it 5 days guaranteed rather than 5-6 weeks with a chance of taking longer still

200.50€ total. On the one hand, I made some choices here that were optional, if you cut those out you can keep the costs down a little. But on the other hand, this is all just the cost of legally transitioning. Medically transitioning is a whole other story